Self Sabotage

How many times do you sit down to start writing and get a sentence or two in and erase everything as start over? I have been MIA for a few days and even so that is exactly what is happening to me.

Things have been crazy the last few days. I was in the gym on Thursday and hit the treadmill for a bit, nothing exciting at all but I need to turn it up a few notches in the cardio department.

Friday was the same old song and dance at work and then I was off to Fitness Together to meet up with Matt. I feel like I am doing a lot of core work which is good. He also had me to pull ups using some stretchy bands to help counter act some of the weight that I can not lift. Over all I feel like I am getting a really good work out when I am there, but I am not feel like it is enough. Is that their fault? NO NOT AT ALL! I need to turn up the heat in the cardio department big time and that is where the problem lies.

So this week I will be committing myself to attending a group class on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday (because as I told you before I feel like I am working hard when I do this) On the days that I am at Fitness Together no matter how tired I am when I am done with my session I will do at least 30 minutes of additional cardio after my session.

Yesterday Jorge and I went down to DC to the Health and Fitness expo. Something to do and it was free! Before we left the house I had one of these.

Over all I was pretty disappointed with the whole thing. The highlight of the event was seeing these two.

I thought they would have more information on health and fitness (I mean that is what it was for right) instead they had a lot of random stuff. There were a lot of stations where you could get your blood pressure taken or other test done. There were some gyms there advertising their gym. There were some food demonstrations. But over all it was a huge room filled with insurance companies, window and siding companies, the human society, quick fix scams and not to much on true health and fitness. O’well now we know!

After we left we took the lunch we packed and headed over to the title basin. It was a bit chilly after we sat down and stopped moving so we didn’t stay to long but we had a lunch with a view.

We had Turkey sandwiches with Laughing Cow light and spinach, we shared carrots, celery and yellow pepper and then we headed to the car BURR and shared an apple and orange.

After lunch we headed to Tyson’s to catch a movie. Sherlock Holmes. Jorge had it all planned. He has been wanting to see the movie and I can go either way and usually lean towards skipping a movie but he had the movie times all printed out and we were going to be right on time to catch the 2:55 show. We ended up sharing a popcorn with no butter! The movie in my opinion was eh ok.

When we got out we had a message from Jorge’s brother asking us if we wanted to meet at Tyson’s for drinks and a movie. We decided we would get dinner and meet up to hang out but another movie was not in the cards for me.

We ended up grabbing dinner here.

We went back and forth on what to order and what would be a good healthy choice. We decided to get their Ahi Tuna salad and their Chicken & Avocado Sandwich with fruit instead of fries. (Jorge made this decision as he was ordering mean while I was secretly wanting to try their garlic fries….Good Job Hubby)

Dinner went a little like this…..

I had 1/2 of the salad with no dressing (although it did have some kind of sauce on it that I didn’t know was going to be on it.) and 1/4 of the chicken sandwich and a little bit of the fruit. I didn’t miss the fries at all!

OK so this is where it went down hill for the day. We met up with Jorge’s brother and his cousin at TGIFridays and the Blue Moon was flowing. I had 3. Of course when I am drinking I get HUNGRY even if I am not hungry. So we ordered Boneless BBQ chicken wings and I had a little of that. Then they gave us free chips and I had some of those as well.

I can sabotage myself like no other! ~ I spent all day making pretty good choices and I get to the end and it was a free for all.

Today I have been thinking to myself..Do I want to make changes? I know that I do but I can’t seem to make the decision to change when the going gets tough. I have realized that even though I am doing some things different there are still to many times where I am still doing things the same way I have been doing things and expecting something to be different.

Do you self sabotage? In what ways?

 

 

(PS after typing this post I officially hate blogger and I will be working on moving to wordpress, I will let you know when the change happens.)

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